Ahead of Trump 2.0 unveiling, New Book Traces Six US Presidencies Failing in War Against Afghan Drugs
Deccan ChronicleGuwahati: The US President-elect Donald Trump’s disastrous ‘Iron Tempest’ in his first term sets backdrop to a new book that documents fast-growing Afghanistan sourced drug trafficking internationally. In 2017, an estimated 1.6 million people reported regularly using methamphetamine, and around 964,000 people aged twelve or older had a methamphetamine use disorder,” wrote Iqbal Chand Malhotra in his book ‘The Nukes, the Jihad, the Hawala and Cystal Meth’. Directorate S had defeated the administrations of six successive US Presidents, from Reagan to Trump, and emerged victorious in America’s longest war,” added Malhotra in the book. A 2017 UN survey indicated that poppy cultivation had reached a new record high of 328,000 hectares “The failure of Operation Iron Tempest could have been avoided if the Trump administration had studied the reasons behind the failure of another anti-drug campaign, Operation River Dance, in 2007,” reasoned Malhotra, while referring to the Bush administration’s attempt to eradicate opium fields in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.
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